On May 26, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Ok , so - how DID you do that?
All these people mentioning you explained the technique - would you
repeat that please?
My head is spinning
ann
Hi Ann,
The car was parked on a road in front of some trees. I shot it with
the DA*60-250 at f5.6, 1/250th, with a B&W circular polarizer on the
lens, adjusted to eliminate most reflections in the sheetmetal. After
converting it, I outlined the car with the pen tool, then selected it
with a 2 pixel feather. I inverted the selection and applied a motion
blur to the background. Then I retouched any edges where I saw any
artifacts from the selection process. I also had to eliminate some
ghosting in front of the car. The PhotoShop tool seems to ghost a bit
fore and aft. Once I was happy with the basic background blur, I
selected the areas that could be seen through the windows and blurred
them the same amount. Next, I did the reflections in the windshield,
changing the direction of the motion blur to conform to the slant of
the glass. I did something similar to the reflections in the roof.
Finally, I selected the shape of each tire with the pen tool and
applied a radial blur.
Voila! High-speed pan.
paul stenquist wrote:
Thanks for that.
You'll notice I've decided that the cars should go faster when
they're standing still:-). Sometimes too much is just enough.
Paul
On May 22, 2010, at 8:50 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Cotty
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11034957&size=lg
Paul, I've forwarded your pic and technique to Stefan who love
photographing cars - he is very interested :)
Don't you remember when Paul posted this one last year and we all
spent a week guessing how he got the shot before he outlined the
technique.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8227424
Hey! It still works.
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